The ability to pull funding is a clear reason to ‘black box projects’

Blue Sky vs White Space

Each additional mission in the government allows another person to stick their nose in the process

Triumphant innovation is unexpected and surprising

What if you could think of PARPA as Skunkworks for VC?

What if your mission was “create technological surprise?”

What would VC financing look like if they could take their money back from companies that weren’t doing well?

Why is “advance technologies that could be critical to national security” quantifiable but “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain” is not?

# Why did funding breakthrough research only focus on DARPA and ARPA-E?
# Why did funding breakthrough research only focus on DARPA and ARPA-E
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# Why is “advance technologies that could be critical to national security” quantifiable but “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain” is not?
# Why is “advance technologies that could be critical to national security” quantifiable but “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain” is not
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